All of these mediums will be displayed in this exhibit. Pencil and charcoal drawings.
Portraiture, still lifes, landscapes, and figures. Sculpture in stone, and clay, will be shown, as well as small bronze works. Some ceramic pieces, will also be included.
DeAnna’s work is realistic in style, and her subject matter varies from the nude to still lifes, and landscape.
Her work has been shown in many national juried exhibitions, including the Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, The Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, The Salmagundi Club, the Connecticut Pastel Society, and the Hudson Valley Art Association.
She has won over 75 top awards in California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont. Art education at the Art Students League of New York, and the College of the Pacific, in California, graduating on the dean’s list, with a Batchelor of Fine Arts Degree, and receiving many scholarships, and high honors.
She was on the staff with Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Agency, on Madison Avenue, in New York City, for 7 years. Some of her clients, included, New York Life, Procter and Gamble, ITT, Duncan Hines, Jeep, and General Mills.
Artist statement:
“To me, painting and sculpting are the highest forms of aesthetic self-expression. I am a painter and sculptor, without preference for one over the other. Although I have had a much longer experience in painting, I have a strong passion for both. My work is realistic in style, and there are no intentional underlying messages, nor any social or political statements. I paint from life, and portray the beauty in nature that I see before me. While I like studying and painting the figure, figures are only a small part of my subject matter. I paint whatever stirs me, whatever is visible in my every day life--landscapes, still lifes, city streets, interiors, anything that will hold still long enough to be painted.”
“Painting (sculpting included) gives me great joy, and fills my soul. It satisfies the burning desire and passion I’ve had since childhood. My works are records of my personal vision of reality, and my own most intense moments.”
“Art is a challenge. With each new work, comes a new experience. This is what makes life exciting--a never-ending learning experience. I will continue to study the rest of my life.”
Painting is a way of life. It is my life.”
At present, DeAnna is living in West Dover, working as substitute teacher, and giving private art lessons.
DeAnna will be participating in the Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce’s “Bears in the Valley” program for the summer season. Bear statues (4’x5’) will be placed on Routes 9 and 100 in Wilmington, and Dover. The bear, that DeAnna will be painting, is sponsored by three churches in Wilmington. St, Mary’s in the Mountain, Our Lady of Fatima, and the First Congregational Church, all on Route 9. This bear will be placed in front of St. Mary’s in the Mountain church (near Shaw’s). Look for it.